A poem about the importance of surrender. Continue reading “Broken Dreams”
Broken Dreams
Self-care challenge
Make some time for yourself
Welcome to the self-care challenge. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to do something for yourself every day for the next five days. Take part in our challenge and win a self-care package. We’re giving away a prize every month.
Lessons I’ve learned from being ill
AKA my recent Happiness wake-up calls
I’ve had a cold for over two weeks, and I’d like to share the lessons I’ve learned from being ill. To give you some background, my healthy eating plan has slipped over the past few months. I repeated my pattern of starting the year strong, then slowly eating more and more chocolate and cakes and ended up ill with Candida. I had to go on a complete detox of all sugars including alcohol, fruit and sugar substitutes. I was feeling pretty rough due to Candida and subsequent die off symptoms. I started to feel better and then I came down with a flipping cold! On top of all that I’ve had a stressful few weeks at work. Continue reading “Lessons I’ve learned from being ill”
Just Do It
Part two in our dealing with procrastination series
Sometimes the best way to deal with procrastination is to ‘just do it’. My default behaviour is to avoid, delay and make excuses. Although I’ve often found the advice to ‘just do it’ a little harsh, I find that when I do that it usually benefits me.
Bang a Nasty Job Off
Part one in our dealing with procrastination series
I would hazard a guess that most, if not all of us, procrastinate on a regular basis. One way to overcome procrastination is to “bang a nasty job off” (BANJO), in the words of my friend Emjet Hassan. Brian Tracy calls it “Eating a frog for breakfast.” The idea is that we do our most difficult task or tasks first thing in the morning.
Embrace your Emotions
Learn to harness the power of your emotions
We all experience what we perceive to be negative emotions and it can be tempting to repress such feelings. I believe it’s important to embrace your emotions, so you can process them and move through them. Continue reading “Embrace your Emotions”
Coping with a bad day
If you’re having a bad day, this blog post can help you to turn it around. It will help you to “turn that frown upside down”, in the words of fellow ICR presenter Jeremy Frost. Here are my tips to help you cope when you’re having a bad day:
Taking MSP to Egypt
Day one – Traveling to El Gouna
Egypt is such an important part of my life. I wanted to take Mr Sexy Pants (MSP) so that he could get to know the country that is so close to my heart.
Your chance to do something about climate change
This is an impassioned plea to my fellow residents of Suffolk to do something about the current climate emergency. This is your chance to ‘Be the change’ (in the words Mahatma Ghandi). Best of all you can do it relatively easily. Continue reading “Your chance to do something about climate change”
Focus on the positive
It’s important to remember to focus on the positive. This is something I need to remind myself of this week. I went for another job interview and once again I didn’t get the job. Needless to say I’m disappointed. I have faith though, that everything happens for a reason and that something better is on the way.